Liberty Trudges Through Injustice a Wet Plate Collodion Collaborationby Shane Balkowitsch at Nostalgic Glass Wet Plate Studio, Bismarck, North Dakota

"Liberty Trudges Through Injustice", a wet plate collaboration, July 21st, 2018.  This collaborions was inspired by the painting at the Louvre "Liberty Leading the People" by Eugène Delacroix.

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Fifty-three collaborators came together for no other reason than  to create this image together.  This wet plate could not come at a more poignant time in our nation's history.  Lady Liberty and all that she stands for and represents is in peril.  We must come together and overcome all challenges to our freedom and the principles that this country was founded on.  I want to thank each and every person that contributed to this fabulous adventure.  I am so blessed to be on this creative path with all of you. 

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson

Carl Zeiss Tessar 300mm lens, Alessandro Gibellini studio camera, f11, 2 seconds of exposure, 8x10" black glass ambrotype in the historic wet plate process of pure silver on glass.   

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Shane Balkowtisch, Ambrotypist   

Marek Dojs, Director

Michele Oster Renner, Wardrobe/Costumes

Cast:

Sabrina Hornung (Liberty)

Easton Freidt (Patriotic Boy)

Greyson Balkowitsch (Body)

Rachel Praus (Woman Bowing)

Andrea Andie Haman

Rissa Williams

Richard Loewen (Man w/ Sword)

Lance Loken

Eden Jackson (Soldier)               

Kevin Tengesdal (Face Down)

John LaLonde

Derek Harper (Downed Officer)

Josh Knudsen Aleson

Rob Sandness

Adam Steen

Laura Barker

Jessica Gustafson

Steve Schirber (Blunderbuss)

James Kyle (Weapons Master)

Abby Balkowitsch

Mitchell Cottew

Lacy Perkins

Kithe Malsam

Jacek Dojs

Maja Dojs

Tony Fladeland (Flute Player)

Support Staff:

Tom Wirtz, Assistant w/ Camera 

Moira McNichols, Liberty Styling

Doug Hanson, Ambrotype Consultant

Jason Lueder, Master Carpenter

Nolan Johnson, Videographer

Andrea Heidrich, Hair

Jenna Botner, Set Assistant

Chad Nodland, Photography 

Paul Noot, Set and Art Design

Marcus Johnson, Photography

Louis Ronald Zurn, Photography   

Pat Toepke, Prop Master 

Dustin White, Writer & Poet

Melanie Kuntz Malsam, Make-up

Nika Ostby, Wet Plate Apprentice

Kyla Meadows, Make-up

Emily Brandt, Backdrop Manager

Angie Pember Brockey, Flag Design

Joe Gartner, Smoke Special Effects

Kevin Kirkey, Historic Props

Ivy Brown Jacobson, Hair

SUPPORTERS:

Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center, Props, Kevin Kirkey

Bismarck Historical Society, Mike LaLonde

State Historical Society of ND, Emily Ergen & Lindsay Schott

Bismarck Downtown Artist Cooperative (BDAC), Paul Noot